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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2011
Applicant:
Bruce A. Borchers, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Inventor:
Bruce A. Borchers, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Assignee:
Prysm, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 43/00 (2006.01); H02K 23/04 (2006.01); H02K 1/17 (2006.01); B29C 45/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 45/14467 (2013.01); H02K 23/04 (2013.01); H02K 1/17 (2013.01);
Abstract
A flexure assembly includes two metallic flexure arrays molded into a thermoplastic support base. The two flexure arrays are positioned in parallel in the thermoplastic support base to allow rotational movement about one axis while providing high stiffness with respect to off-axis movement. Flexible supports in the two flexure arrays may be interleaved to form a cross flexure configuration. Off-axis stiffness of the flexure assembly prevents harmonic resonance in directions that cannot be compensated for in a single-axis actuator.